Romanian thieves try to steal £350 in coins from Tower of London

#toweroflondon #europol #traitorsgate #tourists The lure of easy money resulted in the downfall of four Romanian thieves who tried to steal £350 in coins from Tower of London and paid the price when they were caught as reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 9 February 2015.
It is a custom for tourists to throw coins in the moat and the Romanians wanted to steal those coins – in fact, they had scooped up £350 of coins and tried to flee with their booty, but a member of the public saw them and raised an alarm. Immediately, the Tower of London staff and army personnel chased and apprehended them.
The four offenders had, reportedly, clambered over a barrier and jumped into the moat in front of Traitors’ Gate, through which many prisoners entered the castle and some of whom would not come out alive.
The number of Romanian criminals in Britain has increased considerably and, as per the statistics of the Home Office, out of 128,000 Romanians living in Britain, as many as 361 were criminals. The head of Europol has issued that travelling gangs of criminals from countries like Romania were using cheap flights and EU freedom of movement rules to launch ‘burglary blitzes’ in Britain and elsewhere.
Nearly 95,000 EU nationals were arrested by police in England and Wales in the year to the end of October 2014 and, over 30,000 of the arrests were in London itself.